Imagine, if you will, the following scenario:
On April 31, 2024, with warrants issued by the Dublin District Court, An Garda Siochana officers raided the newsrooms of The Irish Times and RTE. The warrants authorised the raids to acquire film footage and photographs of the riots outside the Israeli Embassy the previous weekend, thereby to facilitate criminal proceedings against known anti-Israeli or pro-Hamas activists.
The editors of both RTE News and The Irish Times agreed that the raids were not newsworthy, so did not bother reporting either them or the Garda seizure of visual evidence. This material was later used in the successful prosecution and imprisonment of pro-Hamas activists. The editors of both organisations refused to condemn the seizure of their copyright-protected and journalistically-acquired images, despite their use to secure the imprisonment of anti-Israel activists. The Minister for Justice declared that the actions of An Garda Siochana were clearly for the greater good of Irish society and would probably become standard practice. The National Union of Journalists declined to comment on the raids, adding that there was nothing to see here, move on please.
Obviously, the foregoing is an achronological and dystopian fantasy that could never happen here, except much of it did. Last April, An Garda Siochana attempted to mount a clandestine, court-authorised raid on X (Twitter) to access material on Gript’s social media account, without Gript knowing or being legally represented in court. This was relating to protests in Newtownmountkennedy against a planned hostel for illegal immigrants. However, the Elon Musk-owned X refused to recognise the validity of the warrant, thereby thwarting the Garda project. When Gript recently reported this extraordinary violation of policing and journalistic norms, neither The Irish Times or RTE News reported it, and the NUJ remained silent.
I said “illegal immigrants” deliberately. We all know that illegals arrive in Ireland under differing and disingenuous verbal flags of convenience, “asylum-seekers”, “international protection applicants” and “refugees” being the most common ensigns of deceit. This process is vastly facilitated by the media’s enthusiastic recycling – and thus validation – of an already bogus terminology. The foremost guilty parties in this conspiracy to mislead the public about what is being systematically done to Irish society are The Irish Times and RTE News. Both are bound by their foundational documents to report the truth, and on this issue, neither does so.
In 1971-2, in trials in the North and the Republic, the BBC’s Bernard Falk and RTE’s Kevin O’Kelly refused to identify the notorious terrorists Leo Martin and Sean Mac Stiofain – whom they had interviewed – as IRA men. Both journalists were briefly imprisoned for contempt of court, but the widespread journalistic support for them meant that neither jurisdiction ever again tried to use the media against terrorists. Half a century later, when the issue was illegal immigration, it was protected against any analysis whatsoever by shibboleths even more powerful than those that had protected human life against terrorism. The Irish media have accordingly stayed completely silent about the legal assault on Gript.
Clearly, we live in an era of far more toxic taboos than existed in the 1970s, and these have really captured Ireland’s moral heart. This was evident in the restraint with which the Irish media reported the handover by Hamas of the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her two babes, Kfir and Ariel, all three murdered in Gaza. What should have been at least a low-key and dignified affair turned into barbarous piece of swaggering paramilitary theatre, before its transpired that Bibi’s “corpse “was not hers. That this obscene and revolting travesty was not followed by an explosion of political and journalistic anger in Ireland was a measure of the nadir to which Official Ireland has sunk. Admittedly, the former Fine Gael TD Charle Flanagan declared that this was “a grotesque spectacle of unvarnished evil…(that) must be condemned by all.” However, even this proved beyond the Fine Gael leader and Tanaiste Simon Harris, who rhetorically linked it to Israel’s previous assault on Gaza. Yet this heartless stupidity probably captures the Irish zeitgeist on such matters, in which a demented equivalence is endlessly enlisted to exonerate Hamas terrorism.
This issue is not tangential to or unconnected with the would-be garda raid on Gript. There is an almost complete overlap of personnel and world-view between the pro-Hamas elements in the media and those that support uncontrolled immigration into Ireland. This coterminous entity freely bandies the terms “racist”, “far-right” and “nativist” about any Irish resistance to mass-population movement into this country. Using inaccurate and foreign terminology to describe Irish events is the standard multiculturalist ploy to shame and silence opposition to their insane projects to racially redesign Irish society. The treasonable Guardianista marginalisation of opposition voices on the issue of immigration for over five decades – that’s racist!!! – has triumphed in Britain, which now appears to be culturally and demographically doomed. The same fate will consume Ireland if the multiculturalists have their way, and their first target was the media.
From the outset, they captured most of the media-studies courses, which now produce zombie-clones who natter brainlessly about the evils of xenophobia, colonialism and the patriarchy. These zombies for the most part are not bad people, but their vitamin-free education has cursed them with rickets of the brain. Which was no doubt how The Irish Times’ initial report of the lethal gang-fight on South Anne Street, Dublin two days earlier never mentioned that they were Africans, or that the affray was between two black gangs, or that the one fatal victim, the Nigerian Qhuham Babatunde, had initially attempted to gain asylum in Italy, which he fled after allegedly raping a woman, as one would, wouldn’t one? Then he came to stupid, welcoming Ireland, which invariably redacts from its media reports any suggestion that immigrants might possibly be other than a gift to their host society, which is lucky to have them. Otherwise, goes the whinny, we’d have no-one to staff our health services or our restaurants drive or our taxis, et cetera et bloody cetera.
So, after Aisling Murphy was murdered – an atrocity that was exultantly blamed by most Irish journalists on misogynistic white Irish males, that is until a Slovakian Roma was found guilty – The Irish Times refused to publish her fiance’s victim-impact statement. Moreover. on average, 40% of all femicides in Ireland are by immigrants, and as Gript reported recently , 36% of all “jobseekers’” allowances are claimed by foreigners. Lovely word, “jobseeker”, often meaning “job-evader”.
Modern journalists are largely (with some honourable exceptions) defined by two characteristics. One is a studiously-cultivated, carefully-curated ironclad-stupidity. The other is their visceral loathing of the “far-right”, namely anyone who thinks that we’ve probably got enough immigrants or that the so-called NET ZERO project is the moral and technological equivalent of the transatlantic Zeppelin. Naturally, they hate Gript, which unlike other outlets, is free of government subsidies. I’m not saying this is why An Garda Siochana attempted to raid Gript’s X account, though I note that the Taoiseach of the time was Simon Harris and the Minister for Justice was Helen McEntee. But as to why The Irish Times and RTE News did not report the raid, why on earth would they? Do they report the successful flushing of a toilet?